Lumber and Nails aren't a roof over your head.
Crude Oil is neither Gasoline nor Plastic
A bundle of wheat isn't a loaf of bread.

Money can help you get a lot of things. Having money can make it easier to concentrate on what makes you happy rather than worrying about what you need to survive. Money and power have an incestuous relationship. But don't mistake the tool for the the goal.

Money can get you a lot but it IS only a tool. and IS NOT the only tool.

Money is a just a necessary rationing device; a system kept in place to facilitate exchange and trade in order to distribute resources properly due to scarcity (well that's not always the case sadly).

Money CAN be a lot of things to people. It's a source of power. Though not the only source. It's a way to 'keep score' to externally measure your self worth, though not the only way. It's very much a common and effective means to many ends. Though it is not the only means, nor should it be confused with the ends.

imagine this. I seal you up in a room with nothing but a nearly unlimited supply of the coins and bills of your choice.

OR

I seal you up in a room with people you care about and care about you, plentiful supply of good food and clean water. AIR. and a vast supply of a variety of entertainments.

Which would you pick?

It's not Money we want. It's the things we can get WITH it. Thus it is NOT everything.

No one works for free... but most people want a job that's more than just something they drag themselves into every day in order to make a living. Many people seek out jobs that are part of their identity, "I AM..." not " I do..."

Like someone else has mentioned above money is for the most part just a tool. It's one of the quickest, most flexible and most efficient tool we have so predictably we have all become dependent on it and we find at times it works so well that we see nothing else. In the modern world, money is a necessary tool because our basic wants and needs usually depends on things made, provided or owned by others. I think the fact that money has become such a basic and necessary tool can lead people to then believe that money is everything and that view can lead to highest value and significance given to money itself rather that what we use it for. The idea behind is that it's supposed to make it easier and faster to trade things like labour, skills, inventions, possessions, services, etc... but money has no value by itself.
So I agree that money isn't everything but that doesn't mean it isn't an important or necessary tool. When in the right hands and used properly it can work quite well.